bjr@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Brian J. Reiser) (04/28/91)
Several students here are trying to use the doublespace.sty file
available from the archives on sun.soe.clarkson.edu. This produces
output that looks approximlatey ``doublespaced,'' which is required
for a variety of strange purposes such as bound dissertations, journal
submissions, etc. The enviroment provides a singlespace environment
which is very useful to singlespace things like quotations and
references. Unfortunately among the several known bugs described in
this file is one that is particulary problematic:
"\begin{singlespace}\begin{quote} produces the wrong spacing before
the quote (extra glue is inserted)." we need to use singlespaced
quotes for lots of purposes, but the extra whitespace above it is very
ugly. Since this is a frequently used feature, can anyone suggest a
workaround?
Alternatively, is there a better package to get approximately
doublespaced output, which is smart enough to not doublespace tables,
quotes, etc.?
Thanks,
Brian Reiser
Princeton University
Cognitive Science Laboratoryjefft@athena.mit.edu (Jeff Tang) (04/28/91)
I've fixed the local version of doublespace.sty to correctly singlespace
the quotation, quote, and verse environments. It should be easy to fix
any others that you want. Just look at the end of the file to see how to
do it. BTW, you're supposed to do it:
\begin{quote}
\begin{singlespace}
Here's the file:
% Last modified by Jeff Tang. (jefft@athena.mit.edu)
% Fixed quote,quotation, and verse environments to be singlespaced.
% 4/90
%
%
%
%------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%
% LaTeX Document style option "doublespace"
% -- usage: \documentstyle[...,doublespace,...]{...}
%
% This style option produces a double-spaced document by redefining
% the LaTeX parameter \baselinestretch to 2.
%
% It also fixes a number of problems with standard LaTeX, as follows:
%
% 1. A new environment "singlespace" is provided, within which single
% spacing will apply.
% JFL - changed so that it works in regular text and so that vertical
% space is before and after is correctly computed
% 2. Double spacing is turned off within footnotes and floats (figures
% and tables).
% 3. Proper double spacing happens below tabular environments and in other
% places where LaTeX uses a strut.
% 4. Slightly more space is inserted before footnotes.
% 5. JFL - fixes spacing before and after displayed math
%
% Note: This version sets a baselinestretch of 2. If this is too much,
% put \setstretch{1.7} (or some appropriate value) before the
% \begin{document} command. To print the document with single spacing
% again, without removing "singlespace" environments, just put a
% \setstretch{1} at the top of the document.
%
% PLEASE REPORT ANY BUGS
%
% Modified by: Jean-Francois Lamy
% lamy@ai.toronto.edu
% lamy@utai.uucp
%
% Author: Stephen Page -- sdpage@prg.oxford.ac.uk
% sdpage%prg.oxford.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk
%
% Release date: 6 July 1986 - September 3, 1986
%
% Known bugs:
% . It might be nice if spacing before the footnote rule (\footins)
% were provided in a tidier way.
% . Increasing struts may possibly cause some other obscure part of
% formatting to fall over.
% . \begin{singlespace}\begin{quote} produces the wrong spacing before
% the quote (extra glue is inserted), use \begin{quote}\begin{singlespace}
% . shouldn't @setsize stretch parskip as well?
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%---Set up double spacing
\def\baselinestretch{2}
%---New command "\setstretch" (slightly more mnemonic... and easier to type)
\def\setstretch#1{\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{#1}}
%---Stretch the baseline BEFORE calculating the strut size. This improves
% spacing below tabular environments etc., probably...
% Comments are welcomed.
\def\@setsize#1#2#3#4{\@nomath#1
\let\@currsize#1\baselineskip
#2\baselineskip\baselinestretch\baselineskip
\parskip\baselinestretch\parskip
\setbox\strutbox\hbox{\vrule height.7\baselineskip
depth.3\baselineskip width\z@}
\normalbaselineskip\baselineskip#3#4}
%---Increase the space between last line of text and footnote rule.
% This is a very untidy way to do it!
\skip\footins 20pt plus4pt minus4pt
%---Reset baselinestretch within footnotes and floats. Originally stolen
% from Stanford thesis style.
\def\@xfloat#1[#2]{\ifhmode \@bsphack\@floatpenalty -\@Mii\else
\@floatpenalty-\@Miii\fi\def\@captype{#1}\ifinner
\@parmoderr\@floatpenalty\z@
\else\@next\@currbox\@freelist{\@tempcnta\csname ftype@#1\endcsname
\multiply\@tempcnta\@xxxii\advance\@tempcnta\sixt@@n
\@tfor \@tempa :=#2\do
{\if\@tempa h\advance\@tempcnta \@ne\fi
\if\@tempa t\advance\@tempcnta \tw@\fi
\if\@tempa b\advance\@tempcnta 4\relax\fi
\if\@tempa p\advance\@tempcnta 8\relax\fi
}\global\count\@currbox\@tempcnta}\@fltovf\fi
\global\setbox\@currbox\vbox\bgroup
\def\baselinestretch{1}\small\normalsize
\boxmaxdepth\z@
\hsize\columnwidth \@parboxrestore}
\long\def\@footnotetext#1{\insert\footins{\def\baselinestretch{1}\footnotesize
\interlinepenalty\interfootnotelinepenalty
\splittopskip\footnotesep
\splitmaxdepth \dp\strutbox \floatingpenalty \@MM
\hsize\columnwidth \@parboxrestore
\edef\@currentlabel{\csname p@footnote\endcsname\@thefnmark}\@makefntext
{\rule{\z@}{\footnotesep}\ignorespaces
#1\strut}}}
% Stolen from MIT.
%
% A single spaced quote (say) is done by surrounding singlespace with quote.
%
\def\singlespace{%
\vskip\parskip%
\vskip\baselineskip%
\def\baselinestretch{1}%
\ifx\@currsize\normalsize\@normalsize\else\@currsize\fi%
\vskip-\parskip%
\vskip-\baselineskip%
}
\def\endsinglespace{\par}
% spacing, doublespace and onehalfspace all are meant to INCREASE the
% spacing (i.e. calling onehalfspace from within doublespace will not
% produce a graceful transition between spacings)
%
\def\spacing#1{\par%
\def\baselinestretch{#1}%
\ifx\@currsize\normalsize\@normalsize\else\@currsize\fi}
\def\endspacing{\par%
\vskip \parskip%
\vskip \baselineskip%
\endgroup%
\vskip -\parskip%
\vskip -\baselineskip%
\begingroup}
\def\onehalfspace{\spacing{1.5}}
\let\endonehalfspace=\endspacing
\def\doublespace{\spacing{2}}
\let\doublespace=\endspacing
% Fix up spacing before and after displayed math
% (arraystretch seems to do a fine job for inside LaTeX displayed math,
% since array and eqnarray seem to be affected as expected)
% Changing \baselinestretch and doing a font change also works if done here,
% but then you have to change @setsize to remove the call to @nomath)
%
\everydisplay{
\abovedisplayskip \baselinestretch\abovedisplayskip%
\belowdisplayskip \abovedisplayskip%
\abovedisplayshortskip \baselinestretch\abovedisplayshortskip%
\belowdisplayshortskip \baselinestretch\belowdisplayshortskip}
% Change various environments to use singlespace:
\let\qdummy=\quote
\def\quote{\qdummy\singlespace}
\let\eqdummy=\endquote
\def\endquote{\endsinglespace\eqdummy}
\let\vdummy=\verse
\def\verse{\vdummy\singlespace}
\let\evdummy=\endverse
\def\endverse{\evdummy\singlespace}
\let\qqdummy=\quotation
\def\quotation{\qqdummy\singlespace}
\let\eqqdummy=\endquotation
\def\endquotation{\eqqdummy\singlespace}